Daniel Benites

Energy & Power Sales Trader | Horizon Trading Co

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Experience of financial services with excellent analytical & numerical skills. Highly proactive and learning initiative. More than 5 years in financial deparments such a Cross Asset, Liquidity and Structured Products. I am passionate about data analysis, machine learning and applying programming language to innovate new trading strategies that analyse historical market data and identify patterns or trends to executes trade rapidly. My objective is to continue learning programming language and improve my knowledge in manipulation of the principales libraries tools for quantitative analysis. Also persist with the understanding of financial markets, instruments, and trading strategies to become Sales Trader.

Experience

  • Managing Director - Energy Sales & Trading at Horizon Trading Co
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    Execute and close transactions between buyers and sellers in Carbon Credits, I-REC, and Spanish White Certificates (CAE) markets. Structure, negotiate, and manage complex deals, ensuring operational efficiency and risk mitigation. Originate, build, and expand a diversified client portfolio across energy and environmental markets. Lead business development initiatives focused on new flexibility sourcing and the opening of emerging markets. Optimize energy asset portfolios to enhance value capture and performance. Manage market data flows—optimizing, rationalizing, and analysing large datasets to support commercial decision-making.

  • Sales Cross Asset & Structured Products at FINTIS
    Nov 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr

  • Investment Analyst – Real Estate at Lamar Real Estate Investment
    Mar 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Responsable of the financial and profitability analysis in the new and future acquisitions of properties. Market Analysis based on indicators (TIR, VAN, CAP RATE, YIELD, DEBT RATIO, ROÍ, etc) to find the best option for our investors. In charge of the organization of information (rent, loan, interest, expenses, wires, etc) in the data base to prepare the monthly snapshot for the investor. Achieve: ▪︎ Build an automation system that allows us to generate a PDF with all the monthly critical information for investors. ▪︎ Create an automation in Airtable that give us an alert (email) when we’ve to increase rent, pay taxes, or renew the insurance.

  • V&V Grupo Inmobiliario (1 yr 4 mos)
    • Treasury & Financial Analyst – Real Estate
      Aug 2021 - Feb 2022 · 7 mos

      Responsible for updating the balances of the real estate projects, reconciliation of accounts and presentation of the weekly sales report. Achievement: ▪︎Creation of macro to reconcile the movements of the accounts of the different banks (BCP, IBK, BBVA and SBK) to add the reconciliation accounting code automatically.

    • Treasury & Financial Intern - Real Estate
      Nov 2020 - Jul 2021 · 9 mos

      In charge of the work payroll/vendors payments and creation of surety letters. Upload flat files to bank, realization of the conciliation for company accounts. Payments of withholding vouchers and detractions Achievement: ▪︎Creation of a macro in excel that adds automatically the conciliation code according to the amount and the description in the conciliation process reducing by 70% the time it took previously. ▪︎Creation a Dashboard in excel that unifies the historic income for project and team in one document, facilitating the obtainment of the data for the monthly presentacion in the general committee's meeting.

  • Exchange Student at Split Rock Resort
    Dec 2018 - Mar 2019 · 4 mos

    In charge of Lodge building Achive: ▪︎Part of the proyect "coffee session" to bring free organic coffee during the day, improving the guest's stay. ▪︎Successfully passed the test to graduate as a lifeguard - USLA (United States Lifesaving Association)